#recedes

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ↗

— Hugh Walpole

#better #error #first #go #last

Nothing recedes like success. ↗

— Walter Winchell

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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. ↗

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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Nothing recedes like progress. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#nothing #progress #recedes

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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